RE: What ever happened to the Code Red worm?

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > Vern Paxson, et al did some research on the "ecosystem" created by the
combination of Code Red, Code Red II and Nimda.  The servers weren't
fixed, but the next infection supplanted the previous one. 

Now that makes sense. If a system was vulnerable enough to have Code Red
it was vulnerable enough to have it supplanted by other malware. But
shouldn't that have happened long ago?

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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